Diary entries

October 14 1924

Leeds, England

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 16 1924

London, England

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 18 1924

Manchester, England

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: Satina indicates that the program order is not known, and that a work by Chabrier was included. She also indicates that the Preludes in G minor and B flat major, op. 23, were played as encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 12 1924

Urbana, IL, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina notes that as an encore Rachmaninoff played Melodie by Gluck-Sgambatti. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 14 1924

Terra Haute, IN, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina indicates that in a review of the concert there was no mention of music by Bach, and that only one Etude by Chopin and one Prelude by Rachmaninoff were given. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 16 1924

Indianapolis, IN, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina indicates that in a review of the concert there was no mention of the Ballade by Chopin or the Etude-tableau by Rachmaninoff. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 17 1924

Youngstown, OH, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 18 1924

Buffalo, NY, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 20 1924

Detroit, MI, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 21 1924

Rochester, NY, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 23 1924

Boston, MA, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 25 1924

Cleveland, OH, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina indicates that according to Natalia Rachmaninoff the Waltz in A flat major could be either op. 64, no. 3, or op. 69, no. 1, or op. 42. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 26 1924

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina indicates that it is possible that the Chopin Scherzo was not played, as it was not mentioned in the review. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 30 1924

New York, NY, USA
Carnegie Hall

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 1 1924

New London, CT, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 2 1924

Worcester, MA, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 4 1924

Haverhill, MA, USA
Academy of Music

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89

December 5 1924

Manchester, NH, USA
P.A.H.S Hall

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 7 1924

Providence, RI, USA
Albee Theater

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 8 1924

New Haven, NJ, USA
Schubert Theater

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89

December 9 1924

Middletown, CT, USA
Wesleyan Chapel

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 22 1924

Camden, NJ, USA
Gramophone Recording

Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording

Notes: Recorded at Trinity Church. Gregor Benko, in his notes for the 1973 'The Complete Rachmaninoff' RCA release, notes that no usable take of the final section of the first movement survived. He indicates that the posthumous publication of the 1924 recording was 'filled out' with a section from the later 1929 electrical recording of the concerto by the same artists.

December 30 1924

Camden, NJ, USA
Gramophone Recording

Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording

Notes: Details of Rachmaninoff's recording sessions have been compiled from Barrie Martyn's book 'Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor' (Scolar Press: London, 1990), pp. 453-497.

December 31 1924

Camden, NJ, USA
Gramophone Recording

Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording

January 14 1925

Washington, DC, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Which Etude-Tableau by Rachmaninoff is not known. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 14 1925

New York, NY, USA
Piano Roll Recording

Rachmaninoff's role: Piano Roll Recording

January 16 1925

Washington, DC, USA
The White House

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina notes that this Friday concert was ‘by invitation’. Satina also believed that the Chopin Ballade was likely in A flat major, op. 47. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 17 1925

Charlottesville, VA, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 19 1925

Norfolk, VA, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 21 1925

Knoxville, TN, USA

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.